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[el_desheredado]

We're staying. The ones who came into the City to try and save it and set everyone free. Us, the Anonymous Movement. We're staying.

We talked to the Three Animals, the Animal Trinity, and they've accepted our offer.

We're going to stay and we're going to help repair the City from the damage we did to it. We're going to bury A here. And we're going to help the people for whom this is their world, their home world, to make the City their own. They're the real Cityzens. We're going to get things in place to help them take care of themselves and lead themselves. It's not going to be easy working with the Deities, not after all the stuff that went down. But they have their job and we have ours and we're not in this alone. And this is what feels right. This is what we decided we needed to do.

I tried to explain this to a few people before, but I'll say it here now: we're like the Deities. We're the same kind of...beings, I guess. That's how we were able to get into the City from outside like we did in the first place. They just have some different power behind them than we do. But that's all right, because we've got power of our own too.

We made a lot of promises to you. We promised to get rid of the Deities, which we did for a while. We promises to stop the curses, which we did for a while. We promised to make a way out of the City for everyone who wanted to go. And, in a kind of bassackwards way, I guess we did that too. I mean, there are Doors open all over Misery Square and you can go wherever you want to go now--anywhere. So I guess we kept our promises. But we also broke them. None of it was really the way we wanted. But we tried.

And I mean it when I say thank you to everyone who stood with us and who trusted us. We let you down sometimes--a lot of the time--but you stayed with us. And I want to thank everyone who stood against us too, because that just made us work harder. Every question, every doubt, all the suspicion against us, that just made us work harder to prove ourselves to you. We didn't make good on all our promises, but we tried. So thanks. And I mean it.

We're staying. And we're going to take care of the City and the people in it. This is our City now too. And we're going to watch over it.

[ooc: The NPC members of the Anonymous Movement will be staying in the City to help set up some self-government projects and to see to the citizen side of the City and its well-being. This is their sacrifice to keep the City alive and ticking.]

Comments

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[hexuality]

You did what you could, which is more than most can say. I reckon you ought to hear someone say thank you to you, so... that'll be me, then. Because I mean it.

[willworkforexperience]

I guess I have a real job now, huh?

[el_desheredado]

Looks like you do--full-time and permanent at that. Congrats. We're gonna need your help, too.

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[el_desheredado]

Thanks. We did do what we could. It wasn't much and it didn't always work. But we tried and we believed in what we were doing. So thanks--for saying thanks, I mean. Not to get us started in a endless loop of thanking each other or anything, but you get what I mean. I've got a feeling you do.

[anunluckypenny]

Thank you for everything you've done. You guys've been so much nicer than the deities ever were, and even when things didn't work out... well, you tried, and you cared. That's not nothing.

I don't know if your people could use the Welcome Center, but you're welcome to it if you want it. It's pretty much set up to be a soup kitchen or a homeless shelter or whatever you need it to be. Oh, but even if you don't, good luck with everything.

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[hexuality]

I do. And look, you found a way to get us home. That's the important bit.

[And she does believe it's going to work, as much as it sucks.]

Take care of this place, alright? I know you will, but it's just... grown on me.

video;

[el_desheredado]

Yeah, I guess it is. I wish we could have done it differently, but we did it.

We will. It's grown on me too. We'll take the best care of it.

[el_desheredado]

Thanks. I dunno, the Deities might have learned a lesson or two in there too. We'll see how this collaborative undertaking goes. I don't think the Animals will stand for too much bullshit between us. We'll make this work.

Thank you--you know, there's bound to be someone who needs a roof over their head or a hot meal here. There's a lot of people leaving, but a lot of people staying. We'll take care of the Welcome Center. I know it'll still have a good use here.

video;

[hexuality]

Good. [Pause.] Tristero—there's no coming back, is there?

[She knows the answer, maybe. But she has to ask.]

video;

[el_desheredado]

[He sighs, looking away, looking down. There's a pensive pause.]

No...there's no coming back. That was what the Animal Trinity decided, and I think that's that with them.

So we didn't keep that promise we made to you. We said you'd be able to come and go in the City when you wanted. Doesn't look like that'll work out after all.

video;

[hexuality]

It's okay.

Reckon it's better that way. We have to go home, right? Can't forget that. I just— [She actually laughs a bit.] I ended up making friends. Even with you, a bit.